Assignment to Comrade Smolyaninov,
Assistant Business Manager of the C.P.C. and the C.L.D.

1) Keep in touch with regional economic conferences and
follow their work from the telegrams, material and minutes
coming in from them, informing the C.L.D. Chairman at
regular intervals about the results of their work and their
fulfilment of C.L.D. assignments, and also giving them,
with Comrade Lenin’s knowledge or by agreement with
the People’s Commissariats concerned, explanations or
instructions on any questions that may arise.

2) Look through the minutes and material of gubernia
economic conferences from the standpoint of verification of
execution of C.L.D. resolutions and general directives,
closely following the work of the most important and typical
gubernia economic conferences, a list of which is to be
submitted for Comrade Lenin’s approval.

3) Keep in touch with the work of the collegium of
economic People’s Commissariats,
Gosplan[1]
and planning
commissions, set up by C.L.D. decision.

4) Follow the country’s economic life from newspapers,
reports and special publications by economic and statistical
bodies.

5) Follow the actual execution of the most important
decisions and assignments of the C.L.D., and report on
this to Comrade Lenin.

6) Carry out special assignments from the C.L.D.
Chairman and the C.P.C. business manager on economic,
administration and production matters.

7) Put the final touches to economic, administration and
production questions coming up for the C.L.D. agenda,
which are not sufficiently well prepared.

8) On your own initiative, with Comrade Lenin’s
consent, prepare and raise through the appropriate People’s
Commissariats or through the C.L.D. directly, the
questions which arise from the material studied.

To enable Comrade Smolyaninov to carry out these
assignments, all correspondence, whether telegraphic or
postal, from regional economic councils and gubernia
conferences, must be delivered directly to Comrade Smolyaninov,
who will then make the necessary reports to Comrade Lenin.

Secretary of the C.P.C. and the C.L.D. shall carry on
correspondence with the regional councils and gubernia
conferences only in co-ordination with Comrade
Smolyaninov, with the exception of notifications of C.P.C. and
C.L.D. decisions^ which are executed by the secretariat
directly. C.L.D. agenda shall be circulated among C.L.D.
members only after Comrade Smolyaninov has seen it.